---------------SLICED BEEF WITH SESAME SEED---------------
450 g Beef shin
500 ml Bottle of Chinese spice
-sauce
1 1/2 ts Sesame seeds
Cooking oil
3 ts Sugar
1 1/2 ts Sesame oil
-------------------------MARINADE-------------------------
1 tb Fen Chiew Chinese wine (or
-Kao Liang Chiew, or sherry)
1 ts Salt
2/3 ts Cinnamon powder
2/3 ts Star anise powder
1. ea Prepare the marinade and marinate beef shin for
24 hours.
2. ea Cook shin in boiling water for 10 minutes, then
remove. Simmer in the spice sauce for 75 minutes. (A
special sauce would be prepared in the restaurant
kitchen; bottled sauce is recommended for home-cooking
purposes.) Remove, cool and freeze (for subsequent
ease of slicing++ ideally with a slicing machine).
3. Stir-fry sesame seeds in a dry wok until they are
golden, and set aside.
4. Thinly slice frozen beef shin, and deep-fry in hot
oil over medium flame until crisp.
5. Melt the sugar in 2 tsp of water in another wok,
add beef slices and stir fry until no liquid is left.
6. Sprinkle sesame seeds and sesame oil over slices
while still hot. Gently mix and transfer to serving
dish.
From "Champion Recipes of the 1986 Hong Kong Food
Festival". Hong Kong Tourist Association, 1986.
